NAHIC: The National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center is based within the University of California, San Francisco’s Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center: The Center aims to promote adolescent and young adult health by strengthening the abilities of State Title V MCH Programs, as well as public health and clinical health professionals, to better serve these populations (ages 10-25).

The Network is a collaborative project led by UCSF’s Division of Adolescent and Young Medicine, in partnership with:

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: How Much Will It Help Vulnerable Adolescents and Young Adults?

NAHIC and the Center for Adolescent Health and the Law (CAHL) have partnered to examine the Affordable Care Act’s impact on three special populations of adolescents and young adults: homeless youth, foster youth, and those in the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems.

These groups, with higher rates of morbidity than the general adolescent and young adult populations, face special challenges in accessing health care and services. This policy brief examined issues in their access to care as implementation of the Affordable Care Act proceeds. A short fact-sheet summarizing the brief is also available. The infographic below highlights the main points of the brief.

NAHIC, National Adolescent and Young Adult Health Information Center. NAHIC Is primarily funded through two cooperative agreements from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.